RE: Storage of a Save 21 Tape

I second that.

I use some similar software at home on an old Athlon 850.

I don't notice any difference when accessing files on the encrypted disk.

Charles Wilt
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> I've got a 2058 Crypto Card.  Now I need the OS enablement.
> 
> 
> Frankly, I'm not sure I buy the 'expensive in software' argument if
> you're running a newer CPU.  As an example, I'm using PGP whole disk
> encryption (
> http://www.pgp.com/products/desktop/professional/pgpwholedisk.
> html ) on
> my laptop so every disk access I do has to be en/decrypted.  
> The impact
> on performance is minimal enough that I haven't noticed it.  
> The CPU is
> a 2GHz PentiumM & the drive is a 60GB 7200RPM Hitachi.  If I don't
> notice the CPU overhead on every single read/write on my PC, including
> swap file access, then I would think the overhead with 
> streaming content
> to/from the tape drive would be similarly minimal.
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> No.  This is an requirement to IBM.  You would have to have encryption
> hardware at the IOP/IOA level, as this would be too expensive to do in
> software.
> 
> Al
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> Does the i5 support tape encryption?  Does anyone use it?  
> (Remembering
> the debacle where a bunch of backup tapes with SSN's, etc on 
> it for some
> major firm came up missing.)
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